Happy New Year! This is the time of year when people make big changes. So, I'm bringing back my conversation with the co-author of Tomorrowmind. It's a fascinating book and especially relevant at this time of the year.

Dr. Gabriella Rosen Kellerman writes that that career trajectories used to be like steamships (full steam ahead), and then they became more like sailboats (lots of tacking), but now we're swirling in whitewater. So how can we stay afloat? How can we flourish?

On this episode of CRAFTED., we focus on PRISM, the five key skill groups that Gabriella says can help you be more successful: Prospection, Resilience, Innovation and creativity, Social support by way of rapid rapport, and Mattering and meaning.

Gabriella was until recently the Chief Product Officer at BetterUp, a platform that helps organizations and people level up through a mixture of human and AI coaching. She originally appeared on the show in a two-part episode. Part one is includes more on the tomorrowmind skills and her career path; in part two, she describes how BetterUp builds products and innovated under her leadership.

And stay tuned as we employ our own tomorrowminds here at CRAFTED... there are some big changes to the show, including a new name, coming this month!

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Featured voices:

• Dr. Gabriella Rosen Kellerman, Partner at BCG, former CPO of BetterUp, and co-author, with Martin Seligman, of Tomorrowmind
• Me (Dan Blumberg) — I’m the host of CRAFTED. and the founder of Modern Product Minds. HMU if you want to build something great! I love building from zero to one.

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A guest episode from Famous & Gravy. On each episode, host Michael Osborne and guests look at the life of a famous dead celebrity and ask themselves if it's a life they would've wanted. The show gets into all sorts of things you will not in that person's official obituary or biography. I'm a fan. Here's how they describe today's episode:

This person died 2011, age of 56. He dropped out of Reed College in 1972 and once said that taking LSD was among the most important things he ever did. In the early years of his career, his obsession with detail drove colleagues crazy, but later he inspired extraordinary loyalty. In the 1990s he bought a small computer graphics spinoff from George Lucas and built it into Pixar. He told the world he would step down as Apple’s CEO if he could no longer meet expectations — and then he did. Today’s dead celebrity is Steve Jobs.

Subscribe to Famous & Gravy in all your favorite podcast apps and at famousandgravy.com

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This week I'm the guest and my friends at Whiskey Web and Whatnot are the hosts. And they're great hosts, because they send their guests a bottle of whiskey before talking web and whatnot...

As we head into the holidays I hope you'll raise a glass with us and enjoy this very laid back episode...

Chuck and Robbie hosted me a year ago and I love that they got me on tape when they did, because it was just as I was starting to consider making some big changes to my show... Changes that I will announce in late January... so get excited for that! and please subscribe to this here podcsat in your favorite apps, and get the newsletter at crafted.fm

Here's how they described the episode:

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• Get psyched!… There are some big updates to this show coming soon

For more on Whiskey Web and Whatnot...

• Check ou:t https://whiskey.fm
• Connect with Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieTheWagner
• Connect with Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/CharlesWthe3rd

In this episode:
- (00:00) - Intro
- (03:26) - Whiskey review and rating: Woodinville Straight Bourbon
- (09:23) - Apple Podcasts vs Spotify
- (11:20) - Spotify video vs YouTube
- (13:02) - Podcasting audio vs video
- (15:24) - Advice on starting a podcast
- (19:24) - Equipment requirements for guests on podcasts
- (22:15) - Having a pre-interview interview
- (26:06) - Social media and podcasting challenges
- (27:37) - How to grow your audience
- (33:18) - How to make money as a podcaster
- (37:28) - Being yourself vs having a persona
- (38:42) - Monetizing your podcast
- (42:11) - What's missing from RSS
- (43:38) - Dan's non-tech career ideas
- (45:40) - Podcast recommendations
- (49:12) - Dan's plugs

Links
- Woodinville Straight Bourbon: https://woodinvillewhiskeyco.com/
- Crafted: https://crafted.fm
- WNYC: https://www.wnyc.org/
- NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/
- Spotify: https://www.spotify.com/
- Pocket Casts: https://pocketcasts.com/
- IAB: https://www.iab.com/
- National Geographic: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/
- Shure SM7B: https://www.shure.com/en-US/products/microphones/sm7b
- Focusrite: https://focusrite.com/
- Shure MV7: https://www.shure.com/en-US/products/microphones/mv7
- Elgato: https://www.elgato.com/
- AirPods: https://www.apple.com/airpods/
- Audio Technica: https://www.audio-technica.com/en-us/
- Morning Edition: https://www.wnyc.org/shows/me
- Chicago Public Radio: https://www.wbez.org/
- Riverside: https://riverside.fm/
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/
- Mr. Beast: https://youtube.com/@mrbeast
- Docker: https://www.docker.com/
- Artium: https://www.thisisartium.com/
- Jay Clouse: https://creatorscience.com/
- Hark: https://harkaudio.com/
- Syntax: https://syntax.fm/
- Hard Fork: https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork
- Big Technology with Alex Kantrowitz: https://www.bigtechnology.com/
- Decoder with Nilay Patel: https://www.theverge.com/decoder
- How I Built This: https://www.npr.org/series/490248027/how-i-built-this
- Acquired: https://www.acquired.fm/
- Smartless: https://smartless.com/
- Wondery: https://wondery.com/
- Sacha Baron Cohen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacha_Baron_Cohen
- Tim Burton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Burton
- Beetlejuice: https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/beetlejuice
- Darknet Diaries: https://darknetdiaries.com/